Llywydd, thank you very much to Adam Price for those general comments that he made at the beginning of his contribution this afternoon. I share his sentiments and we are concerned about the long-term impact on people here in Wales. Nobody knows, of course, and people can come together, as we've seen during this pandemic, and draw strength from each other. But the impact of coronavirus on our communities and on the lives of those who have lost loved ones and have suffered from coronavirus, that isn't going to disappear quickly, I'm sure. I also agree with what Adam Price said about hope: hope is what sustains us, hope for the future.

I'd like to thank the leader of Plaid Cymru too for what he said about the police force, who have worked so very hard to keep us safe in very, very difficult circumstances, and about the impact on young people too. That's why our first priority as a Government was to bring young people back to schools and colleges to try and give them some things back and make them as normal as possible, so that they could meet with other young people, and so on and so forth. That's why we as a Government have said that if we have that opportunity after May, we want to invest millions of pounds in services to help young people to continue to learn lessons and to catch up on those things that they've lost out on over the past year.

And learning lessons is important, of course, as Mr Price said. I don't want to wait for an independent inquiry before we start to learn those lessons. It's important, as Adam Price said, that we learn those lessons now about the strength that people have shown, and about the things that we've been able to do so very quickly during the past 12 months. I had the privilege of being Minister for health here in the Senedd and I recall how difficult it was to persuade people to work digitally, but now, of course, it's a matter of course. We shouldn't forget those lessons; we should harness those things that we have learnt and take them forward in a positive manner. There have been very many difficult things that we've dealt with over the past year, but there are positives too and it's important that we learn those lessons and not wait for an independent inquiry at some point in the future before we do that.

And I agree also with what Adam Price said, and I said it myself in the original statement, that inequalities that had been ingrained, well, coronavirus has drawn them to the surface within our society. And the future won't be better unless the future is fairer. And that's the spirit in which I want to help Wales, if I'm able to, to come out of this pandemic in a way that is better for us all, of course, but is also fairer, so that we can learn those lessons that we've seen with people living with the inequalities within our communities.